Ice for the Poor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 19, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 32.

A New York paper points out what is certainly true,—that the city, and most large cities too, can supply beautiful drives and bridle-paths and speedways free for the rich, but O, how little it does for the poor! It asks why ice, in this fearfully hot summer, can not be given to the poor, if all these things are given free to the rich. The parks are kept beautiful with fine highways for those that have automobiles, but the children and the women are driven from the lawns, that their beauty may not be spoiled for the automobile owners; and then it declares that the city could not spend even $50,000 to give—not free, mind you, but at a fair price—the ice that means salvation to a sick child in summer, that means one cruel tax of a trust taken from the necessities of the very poor. It is these things which cause discontent.